Senior Accountant
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United Kingdom - Oxfordshire - Abingdon -
Job Description
- Contribute to the overarching plan by assisting with the risk assessment, scoping and controls rationalization & optimization process (including updating controls language and flowcharts as necessary) under the supervision of the Head of Finance, UK
- Serve as a business partner to key stakeholders to advise on process, internal control, system implementation, risk, and compliance activities
- Work with the control owners on planning and execution of the test of design and test of operating effectiveness
- Work with internal auditors and external auditors to manage their testing cycles and expectations
- Audit request coordination and monitoring with external auditors and Internal Audit
- Make improvement recommendations of the control environment and assist with pre-implementation control identification and issue validation
- Work with current functional teams within the organization to review current processes and identify risk areas and areas for improvement and design controls around these to reduce risk and exposure to avoid operational surprises as well as evaluate and assess deficiencies
- Contribute to the deficiency evaluation process
- Train control owners on requirements
- Document all test work on AuditBoard
- Prepare workpapers under minimal intervention and supervision
- Drive personal professional development, including benchmarking, training & certification
- Ad hoc projects
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities